Washington Black EXPORT

Type

Book

Authors

Esi Edugyan

ISBN 10

1788162986

ISBN 13

9781788162982

Tags

Barbados, Slavery, Canadian fiction, Male friendship, Slaves, Plantation life, Fugitive slaves, Naturalists

Abstract

Eleven-year-old George Washington Black - or Wash - a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is intially terrified when he is chosen to be the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is intiated into a world where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, they must abandon everything and flee. Spanning the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, London to Morocco, Washington Black is a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and made whole again. -- Provided by publisher.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Novels
Action and adventure fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Adventure fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Esi Edugyan
ISBN: 9780525563242 0525563245
OCLC Number: 1091359118
Awards: Scotiabank Giller Prize, 2018
Man Booker Prize Shortlist, 2018
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction Finalist, 2018
Governor General's Literary Award Fiction Category Nominee, 2018
PEN Open Book Award Longlist, 2019
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Finalist, 2019
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlist, 2019
Nommo Award for Speculative Fiction by Africans Best Novel Category Longlist, 2019
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalist, 2018
Description: 383 pages ; 21 cm
Responsibility: Esi Edugyan.

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